Every quilt has a story..

The top is stitched together!

I'll call it Whimsy's Ribbons Quilt.

The pattern is a free download from Jordan Fabrics.  It's called Ribbons Quilt.

 Honestly, I don't know that I would have picked these fabrics. Maybe I would have chosen one or two to add to my stash.  Now I am very grateful to have experienced making this quilt!  (A big "thank you!" to Watana!!)

I had received a Layer Cake bundle at the last Wanna Bee quilter's Christmas party. 

A Layer Cake is a collection of precut 10" x 10" squares of fabric.

I didn't think to get a picture of my bundle before cutting it into pieces and sewing them together.  I was able gathered the leftover pieces for a sampling photo.

  There weren't left overs of these two.

 

I decided not to use the next two pieces.  The print was too big for the particular cuts I needed and I felt the yellow was way too bright.

I added my own cheddar and rust prints.

Life is fairly busy around my house right now.  But I become obsessed about getting this top done. I made sure to stitch whenever I was able.  Even if time only allowed one seam.

This next pic is how much I had put together during Watana Cantrell's Wanna Bee class.

I see two things I would change as I look at this picture now.

The first is that I would eliminate the column of dark blocks on the right side and add a column of cheddar ribbons to the left side.  That would've kept it symmetrical to the eye.

The second thing I would change isn't quite as noticeable.  I would have been sure to rotate the dark squares more.  To many of them are the same print pointing the same way with just a few rotated.  It kind of looks like a mistake to me.  

However, neither of these things bothers me enough to unstitch and resew 😉.

Besides, I think I've decided to keep this quilt for myself and it'll be part of MY story!